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Christopher Bader is a Professor of Sociology, a board member of IRES and a board member of ASREC. He was principal
investigator of the first two waves of the Baylor Religion Survey, a
nationwide survey of US religious beliefs, and is Associate Director of
the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA), an online archive of
religion survey data funded by the Templeton Foundation and Lilly
Foundation and supported by Penn State University and Chapman
University. To date, he has published 27 articles in journals in the
fields of sociology, deviance, criminology, the sociology of religion
and education. His first two books America's Four Gods from Oxford
University Press and Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO
Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture
from NYU Press appeared in October, 2010. He currently has several
articles and two books in progress.

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Recent Publications

Bader, Christopher and Ashley Palmer. 2011.
"Scared into Church? Conceptions of God, Exclusivity, and Religious
Practice in the United
States." Religion, Spirituality
and Everyday Practice, edited by Giuseppe Giordan and William H. Swatos,
Jr. New York:
Springer.

Finke, Roger, Christopher D. Bader and Andrew Whitehead.
(Forthcoming, 2011). "Innovations in the Development and Use of
Social Science Data Archives." Leadership in Science and
Technology: A Reference Handbook, edited by William Sims Bainbridge.

Finke, Roger and Christopher D. Bader. (2011). “Data
and Directions for Research in the Economics of Religion.” The
Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion, edited by Rachel
McCleary. Oxford
University Press.

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Recent Grants

Co-Principal Investigator on Learning from the Past
and Building for the Future: Designing and Disseminating Measures of Spiritual
Information for a New Era. Templeton Foundation.
($992,034). Dates Fall 2011—Fall 2013.